She stayed for more than 20 years – during which time she bore the screen deaths of her husband, mother and brother, and supported her HIV-positive son and pregnant teenage daughter, – until script disagreements and her illness led her to leave in 2006.
She drew near-unanimous critical praise Roger Ebert famously proclaimed "this is acting" when he saw her that, in retrospect, probably had more to do with the fact that she wasn't a total bore on screen.
Outside the building, a jumbo screen bore the name of Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency.
The first video that popped up, via an advertisement plastered across the screen, bore the title "Small, Tiny, Teens Gettin' F**ked!" Overlooking the unnecessary comma in the headline, I clicked, and was greeted by, yes, both small and tiny young women wearing nothing but the thick-framed "hip nerd" glasses you'd likely encounter at a Librarians-and-Barbarians-themed frat party.
Stimuli were projected using a Dukane 8942 ImagePro 4500 Lumens LCD projector onto an in-bore screen with a 45 × 30 visual degree angle.
The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
Consequently the good doctor limped through the 20th century as the most ghastly bore, popping up in screen adaptations of Tom Brown's Schooldays armed with a stock of moral homilies delivered in a booming basso profundo during Sunday morning chapel.
One hundred and fifty-five volumes were acquired (33 slices each), with eyes open in a dark bore with a blank screen.
First, however, the camera scans each players' body and face to produce a 3D model – when I did it, it picked up the fact that I was wearing glasses and a three-day beard growth, although my on-screen avatar bore an unsettling resemblance to muscular Danny Wallace.
The screen bears the phrase "People With AIDS". Doucette and his team converted a high-definition signal from a digital antenna outside the museum to a standard-definition signal of a live broadcast that plays on the television.
When the cab shows up, the driver's LCD display screen bears all your information to make sure the right person gets it.
